Hi Simon On 05/04/2021 09:38, Simon Matter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 03:07:11PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote: >>> Apr 3 15:00:30 gw-X1 openvpn[1477]: pre-compress bytes,833300152 >>> Apr 3 15:00:30 gw-X1 openvpn[1477]: post-compress bytes,796650159 >>> Apr 3 15:00:30 gw-X1 openvpn[1477]: pre-decompress bytes,343572096 >>> Apr 3 15:00:30 gw-X1 openvpn[1477]: post-decompress bytes,510118472 >> >> This is indeed fairly significant - and if WAN circuits are full and/or >> cost money per Gbyte, compression is still a win. >> >> I'm more of a compression fan than not :-) - so this will be interesting >> discussions indeed. > > Hi Gert, > > Based on the answers I got on this list I'm afraid there won't be any > discussion and compression is gone. That's really sad as it is a useful > feature for many use cases as I was easily able to show. >
at the moment there is neither a patch nor a point on any meeting agenda about removing compression from the OpenVPN codebase. Please don't hastily draw such conclusions. So far it was *you* opening this discussion about compression removal as OT of the patch in the subject. We only expressed our personal opinions about your statements. [note that this patch is not about removing compression, but only about helping those people who want to disable it] *If* somebody will feel the need to remove compression at all, such topic will definitely be discussed in an open community meeting first (everybody is welcome to join). Only then a a bunch of patches (for deprecation first and removal later) that will appear and at that point there will be even more room for discussion. Still, this is the process we take for almost every feature deprecation/removal, but nobody has started it for compression. Regards, -- Antonio Quartulli _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
